A high-availability version of the open-source database will be available on Amazon EC2

Companies looking to move database operations to public and private clouds will soon have another option in the form of Postgres Plus Cloud Server, EnterpriseDB announced Thursday.

EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Standard Server and Postgres Plus Advanced Server products are based on the open-source PostgreSQL database, with advanced features layered on the core code.

The upcoming Cloud Server product features a Web-based interface for managing clusters of database nodes. It includes automatic load balancing and failover, provides various monitoring functions and allows for online backups and "point-in-time" database recovery.

It will be available in standard and advanced editions, the latter of which includes EnterpriseDB's compatibility layer for Oracle's database, which allows Oracle workloads to be migrated over to EnterpriseDB, albeit not necessarily in exact form.

Cloud Server will initially be available on Amazon EC2, with support for other clouds, such as GoGrid, coming later, said Karen Tegan Padir, vice president of products and marketing.

Private cloud support is limited to the GPL version of Eucalyptus' private cloud software, Padir said.

Cloud Server can also be deployed in traditional data centers that don't use a cloud architecture.

It will enter beta in September, with general availability of version 1.0 planned for November, Padir said.

A few customers have signed up for the beta, but EnterpriseDB is hoping to get some more involved. The company is confident the market will respond, according to Padir.

"We're building this because there's absolute demand for it," she said.